The new CUT E series from GF Machining Solutions delivers high cutting performance and boosts productivity

Oct 5, 2015 7:00 PM

Solutions to advance customers’ performance and productivity, secure their processes and accelerate their time to market are engineered into GF Machining Solutions’ new AgieCharmilles CUT E 350/600 wire-cutting EDM machines. The machines, making their world premiere at EMO Milano 2015, ensure accurate cutting of complex shapes and effective cutting on short runs.

Driving the machines’ accuracy and efficiency are onboard collision
protection, new built-in machining strategies and flexible job
management, within a new, easy-to-use human-machine interface (HMI).
The machines’ ergonomics and improved design minimize their workshop
space requirements, and their high rigidity allows accurate cutting of
large and heavy parts. Their compact, space-saving layout ensures
efficient workshop integration, and the drop door system allows easy,
convenient access to the working zone. The CUT E 350/600 machines
boast a reliable wire circuit system for perfect unrolling that does
not disrupt the EDM process during machining. The filters, positioned
side by side, make maintenance fast and easy, and ease of use is also
a factor in the remote control, designed for one-handed use—a real
help in fine tuning workpiece preparation.

The machines’ AC CUT human-machine interface features powerful
job management: Information about geometries, machining processes
and command programs are processed in one file, so jobs can be
transferred between CUT E series machines and all modifications are
managed automatically. More than 10 automated measurement cycles are
available to ease workpiece preparation, and with standard, onboard
AC CAM Easy, the operator can prepare an ISO file and post-process
it into a job during machining.

Powerful performance Efficient production is at
the heart of the modern Intelligent Power Generator (IPG). Its
integrated technologies boost cutting speed, precision and surface
quality. The CUT E series machines can use dedicated wire for
decreased part costs and increased turnover, and the POWER-EXPERT
module decides the optimal power to send in the wire—especially
efficient for stepped parts. The corner strategy module
automatically adjusts parameters during change of direction to
produce sharp angles and small radii. Integrated speed dedicated
processes can reduce cutting time up to 18 percent compared to
standard machines, and the CUT E series demonstrates its versatility
by offering cone cutting capability up to 30 degrees over 45 mm.

The Intelligent Collision Protection (ICP) on the X, Y and Z
axes eliminates costly collision-related downtime and protects your
machine and workpieces, so your machine operators can work with
confidence. Unique on the market and arising from GF Machining
Solutions legacy of more than 60 years of EDM expertise, ICP detects
even the slightest abnormal forces and halts X, Y or Z axis movement
in order o avoid collisions and the costs and damages than can
follow a collision. At the same time, the machines’ ThermoCut module
provides for successful, efficient threading by preparing the wire
properly before threading.